ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,804, issued on June 24, was assigned to PhysCade Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for diagnosing and treating biological rhythm disorders" was invented by Sanjiv M. Narayan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Miguel Rodrigo Bort (Valencia, Spain) and Mahmood I. Alhusseini (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart treatment system is disclosed capable of diagnosing one or more critical regions of interest for a biological rhythm disorder by sensing signals from biological tissue. If a critical region is not present at the current location of sensed signals, the system is capable of indicating a guidance direction in whic...